This video of a Peruvian news report shows emergency services treating fans as worried parents break down after hearing their children have been injured:

Videos posted on YouTube apparently show Niall telling fans: ‘If you don’t want anyone to take us off the stage, make sure you stay back,’ and Liam adding: ‘Or we’ll have to go – and we don’t want to go.’

Mario Cassareto, head of Peru’s fire service, told a radio station in Lima that fans were evacuated near the stage and balcony areas of the venue, confirming they treated 47 children aged between 12 and 15 for asphyxia.

No one was seriously hurt but it hasn’t got 1D’s 69-show Where We Are world tour off to the smoothest of starts.